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Hi all,
I'm in an occasional home group where we play modules (started with Dragon's Demand and we've continued through some others on occasion). It's a very lighthearted and kind of silly group. I play a gnome spellslinger wizard who's half-mad. Last adventure, he took a trap that caught him in a dungeon and turned it into an animated construct that grabs, burns, and 'hugs' its victims with blades. Needless to say, Juci Greaves is quite excited about it.
I have a few other ideas that seem appropriate to the character, one of which is a folding suit of fullplate that I could throw at a caster and forcefully put on them to inhibit their spellcasting. I'm looking for advice on how you'd price something like that, and how you'd run it mechanically.
I'd prefer to avoid making a magical construct (though an armored 'bodyguard' that forces himself on to a caster sounds amusing), favoring a purely mechanical creation that latches onto the caster and just stays there.
Mechanically, perhaps a touch attack followed by a reflex save or a grapple check might work. Cost-wise, making a construct would be easier to price (he has a few craft feats/wizard discoveries). Pricing the mechanical item is a little trickier though.
Thanks in advance!
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i say the mail has to definitely grapple and pin it's 'victim' first, and maintain the pin for a number of consecutive rounds (1d4+1?) before the 'victim' emerges fully suited.
nice idea btw
if the don time is significantly shorter than regular mail, and the AC protection is the same, this item is either a blessing or a curse depending on how you look at it.
I like it.
Now for the mechanics, I see two ways this can work.
Option 1: The suit is a thrown weapon which assembles around an opponent. In this case, I'd say that you have to treat it is a thrown weapon which targets touch AC, and give them a reflex save to avoid being trapped by the constituent parts assembling around them.
Option B: The suit moves under its own power, in which case you can probably just give it a target and set it loose. In that case, I'd say that it probably needs temporary HP which once depleted causes it to fall apart, at which point it must be gathered up and made ready to try again. Once it reaches a target, it grapples, pins, and then encases them, handling all of it with grapple checks.
Personally, I'd prefer the first option since it would be simpler to run. But the second option would be a cool visual. Either one works really.
Thanks for the input! The idea came about from a humorous conversation about using "swift girding" offensively (which we realized doesn't work).
It does have the consequence of giving the wizard a higher AC. Reminds me of a Thassilonian evocation specialist we had at our local PFS. All he prepared was magic missile with still spell and other metamagics, and he ran around in full plate with a tower shield. Sadly, magic Trevor died in the latest free RPG day module and never came back :(
I'll talk to the GM when we get together again about how long it would take to fully "equip" the armor.
Oooh, if I were really nasty I could weave some kind of dimensional anchor effect into it >=)
Well what do ya know, that's really close to what I had in mind! Thanks, Boring! Though I supposed putting them in a suit is better for the victim than being pinned, since with the bands I don't think you'd be able to cast most spells at all.
The fact that that already exists kind of makes me want to go with the animated armor. He'll be my bodyguard who gives really good hugs :)
edit - I do like the idea of marching the enemy wizard into melee >=)